Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Poker Go Podcast. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth. The guy over there dancing that you can't see that is Antonio Abrego cash To. He is our photographer slash videographer slash not audio expert because he totally butchered the audio on the Santos Servanna interview. That's gonna be the lead story today. Santosh winning the two hundred and fifty K Super High Roller. Here at the
twenty twenty four World Series of Poker. We have another winner, frank Funaro, the Whole Funk Frankie Funk winning his second WSOP Gold brace in the ten thousand dollars Super Turbo Bounty. We have Mostafa High Dairy, your boy Kang showing out winning the five K Nolan Holdom six Max. We got Yuri Zevelevski doing his thing, the Brazilian Star winning another gold bracelet. We'll update you on the PGT leaderboard because we had some events play out today that affected that
leaderboard. We got the numbers in from the WSP Millionaire Maker and they're good. We're going to take a look at the fifty k PPC. The the twenty five dollars buying mixed triple drops is playing out. They're either heads up or three hundred or something there. So we'll hit on that and then we'll get into what is going on tomorrow. I think that's all we have to talk about today, but you know, we'll see how it goes. I'm sure we have some nonsense that we'll talk about at some point. As well.
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Moving on lead story, Santosh Servana winning the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Super high Roller. He topped a field of seventy five entries. This number was up year over year sixty nine last year seventy five. This year continues that trend of all the high Roller events being up in field size. Santosh took home more than five point four million dollars, his largest ever career score. Prior to this score, his best was like one point seven to seven
five million, give her take a little bit. He's now up to I think twelve or thirteen million dollars in career live tournament earnings total. With the way that Santosh is going and just how big of buy ins that he plays, he's going to be one of those guys that shoots way up the all time money list very very rapidly. What does he got? What does he got for earnings? How much did he win five point four So he's got five point four to one five thirteen point one four million. So ish,
where does that put him on the all time list? I check it? Thame point one. Oh, he's in the tough Not that the all time list is anything serious anymore, kind of all over the place, but thirty point one he's area in that like low nineties. But he's gonna he's gonna shoot up this list just because he plays the biggest buy in under the sun and he'll just you know, he'll just have some results. That's just what's going to happen. The story at the final table was it was the Ben
Tollering Show. B TEX eighty six from the Online World was absolutely crushing. He took out Adrian Matteos, the winner of this event back in twenty twenty one. Last year at the Rio for the World Series of Poker. Once he took out Adrian Matteos, he had a ton of chips and he was the chip leader. I believe all loay until heads up play and then he lost it against Santos Servanna and then Servanna ended up coming out on top.
Chris Big Huni Hewnigan finished in third place. Hunikin was eliminated by Servanna. That allowed Servanna to enter heads up play with a closer gap than you know, it looked like might might have been for much of the final table. I mean, there was I think there was one hundred and twelve million chips in play. Ben Tolrain had like eighty to ninety million, and the other guys had like ten each like that. That was for a large period of
time. I mean, Tolraine was putting on an absolute clinic. But then eventually Servanna started to fight back win some chips. I think they went into heads up play with like sixty million to fifty million or sixty five million to
fifty million or something something like that in favor of Tolerine. But there was a massive hand that happened when Servannah flopped a straight at Jackie straight he had jack nine on ten eight to seven, Tolraine had ten to four, turn was a four, and then on the river it was a blanket, was a deuce. Servanna ripped all in for I think one point five x pot
maybe two x pot. Toleraine, who had ten to four turned two pair after flopping top pair, ultimately called it off and that was the huge swing of chips that gave Servannah a ten to one chip lead left tollering with like six or seven big blinds and he was able to double up once, but after that Servannah ended up stealing the deal. Good winner. Fun got a root for I think Servanna. You know, he's out there blasting. You know, he's one of those people who came from the business world. He's
a businessman. He got into poker and and now it seems like he's probably gonna be a bit of a lifer. You know, he's by all accounts, has tons of money. He's out there firing away. So he seems like he has a lot of fun when he plays. You know, there was a bunch of people that were rooting for him on the rail. You saw Nick Airball, you saw Humboldt, Mike Jason Kuhn was there to sweat his good buddy Ben Tolleren. But even he was having fun with Santos Servanna.
They obviously know each other from playing in some high SAX games, playing a lot on the Trenton Poker Series together, So seems like there's a lot of love out there for Santos. His second WSIP goald bracelet he won in twenty twenty three WSP Europe fifty thousand dollars Diamond high Roller for I think six hundred thousand euros or right around maybe six fifty something like that. But this one, of course a very very very big win for him again more than
five point four million dollars. Tolerin took home three point five million dollars for second place, Chris Unikin two point four million dollars for a third place. Not too long after, Chris Hunikin won the ws AP one hundred thousand dollars high Roller. Incredible week for him, crushing, crushing. What did he win for that two point fall? Was the top of my head? It was. It was. It was interesting that that hunikan was back in action
at this final table, made it the three handed play. The rail did pick up, but it wasn't the same rail that we saw that first time around, right, it was? It was a little bit less two point eighty three eight million people were certainly less drunk this time around, less rowdy too early in the day, really is that why I think there was fewer exciting hands than what we saw at that one hundred k high roller final table. But I guess they just all got a case of been there, done
that with Huni just a few days later. I mean he's now won five million dollars in what a week's time, week and half something like that. He has to have shot up the Player of the Year. Probably has to be an updated, but we'll have it. We'll pull it up, we'll talk it about. It probably hasn't been updated, but actually shout out twenty five k fantasy guys stand over there. He's been tracking POI now because he's like, they don't update it fast enough on sp dot com. So I'm
just gonna do it myself. That's got of his because I wonder if he's got I wonder if he's got this updated. This will be the test, he says Chris on top up two two six hundred and seventy points. Conceiver in second, Jeremy Osmas third, by any a handful of points, Sean Deep fourth. I'm not sure if he includes Sean Deeb's cash in the mixed triple job, but I'm assuming it does. Fourteen cashes for Sean Deep. That's pretty how many fourteen What in the world, I don't know, Uh,
he's but you know what fourteen cashes. How many bracelets zero, yeah, exactly, John Reiser's fifth, Yuri Zeveski after his bracelet that we're going to touch on a little bit later. Six phil Ivey seventh. Just rounding out the rest of this final table. In the two hundred and fifty k Super high Roller, you had Mattias Ebinger one point six eight million for fourth place. Charlie Hook. You put the R in there. There's no R in there, buddy. Actually that was an auto correction, and I saw
that. I was like, ah, I'm not going back to Charlie. Charlie Halley fifth place, one point two to three million. He took a sick one. He gets it all in with pocket tens. It went and raised from HUNI who at ace Jack Hook moves all in for I think, well, it was thirteen point seven million. I think I figured what the blinds were. He moves on with two tens. Ben Tolering re jams with Ace King. It comes deuce deuce for deuce deuce. Yuck. Yuck is
right, and Hook is out the door in fifth place. Taylor von Kregenberg sixth place, nine hundred and forty five thousand, So Taylor. He also took a sick one. He flopped top set of kings on was it King six deuce, then turned nine River Queen and the money went in on the river and Ben toleerin at Jack ten and got there. So this is I mean, this is what was happening with Ben Toleran at this final table. I will say that Taylor did get extremely lucky with nine players left when he
absolutely ft our boy Sean Winter was on our twenty five team. Winter gets it in first of all. Winter lost Ace King to Jacks for Mattias Ebinger for a ton of chips, so he loses that. Then he gets it all in with Kings to von Kreegenberg's Queen's Queen on the flop. I mean, how bad are we running in twenty five k I mean that, coupled with the fact of what happened to Daniel in this event yesterday the Jacks,
it also dawned on me that Daniel got f with Jacks. I got f with Jackson the Millionaire maker, Like we're just we can't do with Jackson. We just can't have big pairs and get it in good. We just can't. Now listen, Daniel did get it in with jacks against Queen's earlier against Seth Davis been hit the jack, but still, I mean he was due
for one of those, right. Jeremy Alisma's finished in the seventh place seven hundred and fifty k Mkitat bad Ziyakowski eighth place, six hundred and twenty nine thousand, and then I just mentioned Sean Winter going out in ninth place for five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I got the sense that Shaun Winter looked
a bit annoyed with that queen, and understandably so. I think he even said one time, which it was a kind of out of character, which, yeah, it just it just showed me like how much I think Winter was invested in this event. Like he hasn't won to Bracelet yet, right, so that was probably on top of mind somewhere for him. This is his type of event, super high stakes, elite field. He's out there with the best of the best, he's doing his thing, you know,
and he was crushing for much of it. And then it all just went south and came crumbling down. You had Adrian Miteo's finishing in tenth place. You had Phil Ivy busting in eleventh place, he took a sick one also against Tolerine. They get it all in on was it ten to five to five? I believe was the flop king ten for mister Tolerain, pocket queens for the goat phil Ivy. But what's the river? Oh it's okay, it's of course o ky. You know when Ivy's out the door in two
seconds. So there was that, and then John Jaffey busted in twelfth place. They came back with fourteen today Mikolai. Last name starts with the V. I don't have it written anywhere here, so I'm not even gonna try. It was Vaska Boyne Cow that's I think that was actually it exactly that might have been. It busted in eleventh place, and then Brian Kim went
out in thirteenth place on the stone Bubble. He went out with pocket six's versus Charlie Hook's Ace seven Hook Rays called it off for it was about a six point one big bunch shove with pocket sixes from Brian Kim flopped to seven for Hook and that was that and they were off and into the money. So that's the two hundred and fifty k super high Roller, the largest buy in tournament on the twenty twenty four World Series of Poker schedule, Frank Funaro
wins his second bracelet, just like Santos Servanna. Funaro did it in the ten thousand dollars Super Turbo Bounty. In twenty twenty two, Funaro won an online bracelet. He took home THEWSP dot com one thousand dollars Online Championship for ninety four thousand dollars. In this event, he won a lot more money
six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. We streamed this final table over on poker gro and the poker Goro YouTube channel, so if you guys want to check it out, as we did with the two hundred and fifty k as well, so both of those are available to watch out there. The two undred fifty k was exclusive to poker gro dot com, so just keep that in mind if you are looking for it out there. As as we expected coming into this final table, nine players left. I mean just swingy, swingy,
swingy, fast and furious. As they say, chips are flying left, right and center. Shota Nakanishi, a bracelet winner from twenty twenty two. He won the ten thousand dollars short deck event for two hundred and seventy seven K. Back then he took second place in this one for a little over four hundred and eight thousand dollars. Michael Rocco third for two hundred and eighty three thousand dollars, second third of the series. Good for mister Roco.
Oliver Weis one hundred ninety nine k for fourth place, Alexi Boika one hundred and forty three thousand dollars for fifth place, Steve Buell one hundred and four thousand dollars for six place, Anton Seiout seventy seven thousand dollars for seventh place, Ludovic Guylic fifty eight thousand, six hundred dollars for eighth place, and then Aaron Johnson ninth place for forty five thousand dollars and change. Aaron
Johnson. You'll recognize that name because he recently had a second place finished in the WSP Monster Stack for seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So a good week for Aaron Johnson out of Minnesota. Two final tables, two big scores. One of course, was an absolutely mammoth score with that second place to Pedro neves Over in the Monster Stack. This final table was fast again, as I said, a lot of all ins of action, some really really
big clashes. So if you want to go relive that one and have some fun, please do so. I was on commentary by myself, so I would love it if you guys checked that one out. All right, So you want to give the update on the PGT leaderboard because we had some both of these events calended that we just talked about, right, the two A Super high Roll and the ten case Super Turber Bounties. What's kind of the status of the PGT leaderboard? Sure up top hasn't really changed. David Coleman
and Dylan weismithstill lead. With the biggest mover Jeremy Osmas. He jumps up into third. He's got twelve hundred and forty seven points. Chris Honychin we already kind of touched on. He is into fifth place. Two cashes straight into fifth place. He is one thousand and fifty PGT points. That takes us to eight players over a thousand points. That number important because that's where we think qualification for the end of the year million dollar Free Role PGT Championship
will be. Another big mover Santache up to twelfth place, eight hundred and forty seven. Yeah, he would be Michael Roco having a great series just mentioned, two third places, seven hundred and fifty points, he's in thirteenth. Frankie Fernaro he's got two cashes, he's up to twenty third, Ben Toleraen with his runner up finish twenty fifth, the Great Phil Ivy twenty seventh place right now six hundred and eleven points, and Taylor vron Kregenberg he's in
thirty seventh with five hundred and fifty one points. Lots of big events coming, so we're still going to see a lot of movement. Talk to Jeremy a little bit the other day, you know, he's when he finished second to Chris, he was like, Okay, I'm really kind of not locked in, but he feels very comfortable now. So obviously he's not going to settle and stop playing, but you know, he's in a great position to make a run at actually maybe overtaking your boy David Coleman for PGT Player of
the Year. So it's cool that, you know, we have some really big names there in the top top ten, including uh Daniel mcgronod down in tenth with nine hundred and forty five points. He dropped a bit. Yeah, he's been well, he ain't doing anything so mean, he's kind of making deep runs. He's just not making it keep running, just like just you know, dipping his toes in the water. I guess you would say. The name that sticks out to me from those players that you went over
Frank Fernaro. And the reason why it sticks out to me is like a couple of years ago he was playing everything, yeah, and then he stopped playing everything in the studio. Yeah, and now maybe he comes back. I mean, he just won more than six hundred thousand dollars. That's one thing, you know, that'll be a nice boost to the bank roll. Get your fire in some more if you want to do that. And then also you know, chasing this leaderboard, chasing the top forty, all that
sort of stuff. We'll see if we get him in the mix in some of our other events in the studio. And that's the PGT leaderboard. For everything PGT related, of course, head over to PGT dot com. You can see the leaderboard, you can read any articles. All the news is happening over there. The schedule of events, et cetera, et cetera. It's all on PGT dot com. Now we have the WSIP Millionaire Maker. We have an update. The numbers are in World Series of Poker tweeted out
the final number for the field size not too long ago. Today was Day one C the final starting fight, third and final starting flights. Do keep in mind that last year two starting flights, this year three starting flights. Last year this event set a record ten four hundred and sixteen entries, largest field in DOUBYSSIP Millionaire Raker history. Guess what we got a new record? Oh yeah, ten thousand, nine hundred and thirty nine entries this time,
just like it was right there to eleven thousand right there. You know they only needed sixty one more, but it doesn't matter. Ten thousand, nine hundred and thirty nine is an incredible number for this event. On Day one A they had twenty eight hundred and two. On Day one B they had three thousand, seven hundred and twenty one. And then today day one see four thousand, four hundred and sixteen entries. Don't know too much on who's
who? I actually, I take that back. We can go to the end of the day reports for the first two days is what we can do. I know we can do that for sure. It looks like or Elou out of Vienna, Austria. Sorry if I butchered your name or bagged the chip lead from day one A six one hundred and seventy three thousand, five hundred. Just a quick look over the chip count see if anyone from there sticks out three hundred and five thousand, five hundred Esther Taylor, Brady,
e Land and Tice. Oh wow, I believe Jeff Platt has about two hundred and something. We were just I was just talking about how it's like not the hype isn't there. Well, the hype was there leading into the summer, but you know, the result has and met the hype. But it looks like Landon Tights could make some noise in this event. That's all I really see. Melanie Weisner is another one who bagged a lot of chips Day one B You have yee Wan out of Handan, China eight hundred and
seventy five thousand for him another Chinese. But wa wait, that can't be right. Is Singapore in China? No? Why does that say Singapore China Shao Yun Lee is that player six hundred and sixty thousand, Teamar Margolin,
oh three hundred and ninety eight thousand. He bagged the fourth largest stack on Day one B. Margolin of course won the eight hundred dollars deep stack for his third gold brace so that he won that earlier this summer he made a deep run in the monster stack, and now it looks like mister Margolin is setting himself up for another deep run here in the Millionaire Maker. Brett Apter
bracelet winner sixth place from one B three hundred and seventy three thousand. He made a deep in something else the other day David Stam Okay, look at David Stam two final tables already the series. He final tabled the twenty five thousand dollars Nolman hold him high role that Nick Shulman won. Then he final tabled the was it three thousand dollars Nolan hold him that I covered the five players left. He final tabled that Now he's bag three hundred thousand chips in
the Millionaire Maker entering day two, So good on him. Ryan DiAngelo, I see bagged a lot of chips. We don't have Day one seed chips. Yet of course they're still playing, so we'll update you on the Millionaire Maker as we go. The next big news item to come out of this
tournament will be what the prize pool is where it falls. Last year, they did kind of wonky payouts, if I remember correctly, I think it was one point three million for first, just over a million for second, and then kind of a big drop to six hundred and fifty k for third, obviously wanting to get two millionaires instead of just one. Tim and I talked about that already. So we'll see where they come in this year with the payouts, and we'll talk about them when they get announced. The Kangaroo
Crew strikes again. You let's go, who is it? Tell me I didn't. That's not how to say his name. It's your boy. It's okay, he's not my boy. He's just Australian. So therefore is I guess kind of my boy. But Mustafa HYDERI, I don't know. Maybe
you're on the Kangaroo Crew. I'm the President of the Kangaroo You know what they should have They should have a we need a like a money leader board for the World Series, but for countries that's easier to say, no, I know you can do it. But what I'm saying like they always say, like you know, that's the third gold races for Australia. You know that sort of like they tracked that stuff. But I want the money,
okay, money list, Well, he Alia is doing pretty well. The five k Noloman hold him six max for six hundred and fifty six thousand dollars defeated Germany's Banad Glistner four hundred and thirty seven thousand Kresienty Yankov third for three hundred k and Brandon Swartz fourth place two nine. The Kangaroo crew is on the rail. They're all in the winner's fighter. That's three bracelets for Australia, three bracelets. Second lord counting gold medals at the Olympics, you know
who was it the guy who won the Mister Million, Malcolm Trainer. Ye. Then who else? Andy McCloud, Andy McCleod, James Cloud. And we had two runner ups. You got two silver men yep and Daniel Hashim. Daniel Hashim yeah, yeah, I mean you guys are crushing the money list. We are the best country outside of America when it comes to poker. When it comes to Way to Poker, they I would bet right now without even thinking that we have the most bracelets from a non American country this
year this series. Yeah, I think we might be up there. Brazil, Brazil or Portugal might be close. Or Portugal has one for sure, Brazil has won for sure, Brazil or sorry, Portugal is Pedro Nevez. Brazil has Yuri Seveleski, who were on too. I should we should look at this, we should look at this. Tomorrow, We'll have this. I'll do this tomorrow. You come up with some stats. Yeah, speaking of Brazil, speaking of Yuri Zeveleski. One is fourth World Series of Poker
Gold Bracelet. It was a battle with Nick Julia, but ultimately Zeveleski came out on top in the three thousand dollars buying a nine game a mixed tournament aka the Mini basically the Mini p p C almost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars for Zeveleski as he takes the win there. Nick Julia finished second place for a little over one hundred and forty two thousand dollars. URI's a freaking crusher man, I mean seriously, I mean, how good is this guy
fall bracelets in five years. He's an absolute crusher. He's an He's a beast online as well, always as well with the big series that are running online. You know GG Poker, Scoop w Coop, stuff like that. So you're a an absolute crusher and he's here crushing at the World Series of Poker, and yeah, just an absolute beast. Moving on to the mixed triple draw. I said earlier that we were heads of her three handed.
We now have a winner. We talked long enough to get them to a winner, and it's Patrick Molder, who has had a pretty good amount of success at the WYSIP this year. So he wins the twenty five hundred dollars mixed triple draw event. He defeated Ian Chan in heads up play. Molder won one hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars for the victory. Believe it's his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Earlier this summer, he finished ninth
in the ten k Omaha High Low Championship event. He also finished eighth in the ten thousand dollars Horse Championship event. When I see those two results coupled with the fact that he just won the mixed triple draw. I immediately think, Patrick more, You're on my list as a one dollar player for next year. I mean, it's like on my list where I'm gonna keep an
eye on you. I'm gonna see how you perform. Yeah, and we'll go from there, because I mean, these seem like decent results, right, you know, so maybe he's kind of like that next cheap, affordable one dollar bye who makes some big noise going forward. So so far, so good, really good summer for Patrick Moulder. We'll see how he progresses as we go. We gotta talk about this fifty k PPC because that kicked off today. Are they still playing or are they? They should be playing
for another hour? Okay, so I find this extremely interesting. Okay, they start these high rollers, yes, and they end them at like nine o'clock. It's like eight forty five. They back jets. Why is the fifty k still going? I feel like the are very different. But I feel like the PPC, even if it starts at two or whatever time, like, I feel like they they are very much like a two to nine. But then they need to add another whole day probably to the screed the
tournament is already eighteen days long. How long are we trying to play? I mean, really, how long were trying to play? Seven? I actually got it before we go into the PPC tournament director shortened Charlie SERIESI told me this brilliant idea he had, and I want to steal it somehow for the PGT mixed games. I mean, you can just steal it. We
were joking about how long this event takes. Which event the PPC, and he's like, it's like playing a game every day, and he goes, I had this idea once where you know where you would like you would have your own PPC, but each day is a game. So for the PPC, you take nine days. For example, first day you start with one hundred k you play only hold them right next day, so it's like an accumulated fashion where you just keep your adding your chips. Next day you play,
oh wait right, and then raz start you get my point. You play all nine games, but one game only on Mondays you can go bust. Well you could run it up, and then at the end of the nine days you combine, put all your chips together and finish the tournament. Interesting. It's a fun kind of idea. Maybe like let's say the no limit hold them comes, you don't want to buy in, so maybe you just skip that one completely, like you could do a buy in per day,
or you just do one hole in tie buying. But I like the idea. I'm going to sit on it. I'm going to make a let a brew see how I can work it into a mixed game series. So because you brought up like the or I brought it up or whatever the length of this tournament, it got me thinking. So I went over to the Dobisop schedule page and I clicked on the structure for the twenty five thousand dollars
Horse, which is event number ninety six on the schedule. Yeah. So first of all, first thing that sticks out to me from this structure sheet. There's one re entry in this event. Correct, I don't know. It's not a championship event. Yeah, but it's a higher buying Okay, So I mean, isn't this the horse championship event? Is the other one's the worst championship says high rollers have a re entry? Yeah, it just seems weird that, like this is very weird. This is the championship event.
No championship events a ten case. Not the Poker Players Championship, that's a fifty k. Okay, the one the one random event. What that's true? It's the Lad's Championship, that's a one k. It's a ten k fine Senior Championship, one k deep Sex Championship. You can buy if you're not a senior, you can buy in a for ten thousand. No, you can't know. You could you mention that they have one of those tournaments if they had like that rule for the ladies event. But for this
how many people? How many Jahn d in? They're for sure? Really though? I mean, didn't he play the ladies on one year? I'm gonna, you know what, I'm gonna ask this question to some players because what the min cash is still on? They got to bay two thousand dollars K. You're really gonna buy it for like ten k? Yeah, some people certainly light some money. You have to put the thing the thing about the the thing about the seniors event and doing this versus doing it in the
ladies event. Is the seniors event, it's five thousand entries, first place is like six or seven hundred thousand finish. But in the Ladies event, where do you have to finish the profit twelve? Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, it's way it's way more feasible for you to want to do this in the seniors Championship than want to do it in the ladies Championship, which is why it's even dumber for these people who do it in the ladies Championship, Like, just let them have their little time in the
spotlight, Like why do you have to ruin that? I hate ladies. Yeah, I just hate when people do that. It's just frustrating because I think it's written. No, I know it's written, and I know it's a stupid rule and they can't exactly get around it because of gaming laws and this and that, and it's like discrimination and whatever. Well it's it's dumb and outdated. Let the ladies just play. I mean, who cares anyway. I just thought it was interesting that that this horse event one had a
re entry. That was the first thing. Second thing that stuck out to me. The ten k horse is a four day event. This is a three day event. Look at the structure. I understand, but I'm just saying, like it's a high roll of the structures. It's fassa small like app mix game series. I know, but but Okay, by the end of the series, everyone's like, fucking let's get out of here. Let
me try and win half of mil I'll go home down. I'm just saying, it's just interesting to me that that it's because there's been times when you know, we've heard that, like they don't want to do this thing or that thing because they don't want to you know, ruin like other events. For example, they don't want to name the nine game Mix Mini PPC because that takes away from the actual PPC. Well doesn't the twenty five k horse take away from the ten k horse Championship. But it's not calling it the
it's not the holes championship. But you think people know that. People see twenty peoples and they're like, he won the twenty five k horse versus who won because the ten k horse. I have no idea who won the ten k horse last year. I know josh Ari won the twenty five k horse for sure. Exactly, you don't know who want to think I'm trying to
think, Yeah, I know you're trying to think. You're staring at the ceiling like I'm just saying, I'm just saying, what's what's wrong with the twenty five k horse being that that event, you know, like being that like championship event, which leads me to another topic, another tangent here, do you think or maybe maybe the question because he was it was gord O. Yes, you are correct, yeah, because remember he had that issue with the money and then he then you fleet off the winning I mean whatever,
he got us to the points we need and that's all, that's all that matters. He'll have a soft spot and he'll have a place in my heart forever. It will there ever be a time when now you can't really say this about the wspre main event, but the other events, the championship events, are really the ones that I'm talking about when the buying changes just because like now ten thousand dollars is worth you know, a different amount than
it was ten years ago. Now the Double Spree main event is for sure always going to be ten k. Like I know, they like there's been that conversations at times when people are like we need to make the WSTEEN event fifteen k, we need to make it twenty five k, you know, like stuff like that. No, that's never changing, But I think there's a little more flexibility, not a lot, but a slight amount more for like the champions events. Could you make all the championship events fifteen k?
Could you make them twenty five ks? You know people that does fifteen k byans is the silly pgt But I guess Tryton used to do a lot of them too. No that yeah, they do silly buyings, but higher. The question if you were running the sixty K tournament, if if you were running the WSP, is your goal more players or more more money for these championship events? I mean more players is more money? No, incorrect?
What do you mean it's a math equation? No. My point is, if you want big fields, I think you keep it ten K. You could even want big fields. I do think you've ever gone back. I don't think we're ever going back to the five kill. I like the five kse No that was if you want big fields, to keep ten If you want bigger prize polls but less players, you may think about going to the twenty five K. I mean, listen, I think there's two. If
I was running the WSP, there would be two different buckets. The ten K Championship events I don't really like, necessarily care so much about, like the rake that I generate from those events. Those are my headlining events, Those are my prestige, like that sort of stuff. Like I'm trying to basically hit some sort of baseline number, which I think now is. I mean, I don't like no one's ever said this, but I feel like it's a hundred. Like you don't ever want to get below a hundred,
like in the in the ten K stud you don't. Yeah, you don't ever want to get below a hundred. It's hot when like this, I understand what I'm saying that that's like kind of that that it's the quiet base that you want to hit. You know, you always want to hit a hundred, right because then because hundreds also, it's just one of those it's one of those markers where it's we talk about it and it doesn't really it's not a marker for any sort of reason other than the fact that is just
a nice clean number. It's the first time you go from double digits to triple digits, and so we talk about it. So if the ten K stud gets ninety two entries, for example, we're gonna say, oh, it didn't get a hundred, right, If it gets one hundred and seven, we're gonna say, oh, it broke a hundred. That's great, Like, you know, it's silly that we do that, but that's what we do. That's what everyone does. Like that's just how it is. Right, this fifty k PPC, I mean, we don't know where it's
gonna get, but one hundred's a really good number for that. Like, so if it gets over one hundred, we're gonna be like, Wow, the fifty k PPC got over hundred. If it gets below a hundred, we're gonna be like, oh, it got below hundred. You know, Like that's just gonna be a talking point, right, or something that we
mention. So I don't really care about rake, Like, so I'm worried about like generating rake and like money and revenue for my company with like the Millionaire Maker, the Deep Stacks, the the one k no Limits, the twenty five hundreds, the fifteen hundreds, the Monster Stack, like all those
events like those. I'm trying to put as many butts in seats as possible in this place and collect whatever it is, one hundred dollars per entry or whatever the heck, the rake is like, that's what I'm trying to worry about. The other stuff, like the championship events I don't really care about,
like the rape. I mean the rake, Yes, you need it because you have to pay for something, but like I don't care about it as much because those are the events where I'm hoping to get Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivy and Daniel mcgran you in there first second, like winning you know, hopefully things break right where they win, because that's headliners. That's what people want to read, right. So I'm looking at it as two different things, right, So, so it's not really about like the numbers so
much for the championship events. For me, it's more about like what creates the most prestigious championship events in that specific category. So in stud what's the most prestigious event? Inhrase, what's the most prestigious event. I just I think that I'm not fully there yet, but I think that there's just a case to be made. There's at least a conversation to be had that you could think about upping the buy in in this current climate and where we're going
in poker. I don't think were yet. I think we need bitcoin big
up. But that's but that's why I said, I think the question is when okay, because like you know, every year, like ten k is not worth what it once was, Like the things change, you know, so like at what point do you start saying like okay, Like I mean, it's so it's it's the it's the actual dollars part in combination with like the health of poker part, because like obviously the health of poker is really good, and like people can afford people that are playing ten k's can probably
afford fifteen gays and they're going to and you get some extra money in the prize school and you're really not going to see a dip and field. I'm a sucker for history, so I don't want to change it. But like in ten years at bitcoins with one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars ten k may feel like, you know, five k to I poke, So yeah, we might have to have that conversation. But right now, I yeah, I mean, that's why that's why I said when you know, because
it kind of it kind of feels like that. And part of the reason why I say that in regards to these Championship events. Is once I see ren Lynn and these no limit hold them guys firing into this freaking raz tournament, I'm like, okay, we like it's time, you know, like even maybe they don't fire, it's fifteen I know, but I'm starting it's
not time. But I'm starting to think that it's time, right because like these guys are these guys for whatever reason, are getting comfortable or maybe they just have enough money that they're like, Okay, I'm just gonna fire this because this is what's on today. I'll figure it out as I go. I'll watch Daniel's you know, fifteen minute video on YouTube, like some of them said that they did, and then I'll go in there. Whatever,
how hard are you going I be to figure out ras? I mean, I can is the easiest game, you know, but it's like they can figure out the rules pretty easily because they're all sharp people. And then they'll go from there, right, they'll learn the strategy on the fly whatever. So anyway, that's just an entirely off bace topic that I took us down, but it is what it is. Let's look at this fifty k p PC. I've only seen one bit of needs from the PPC. I saw
that busted. I saw two people busted. I saw that David ODB Baker busted. If I read his tweet correctly, he played the eighth I at first I thought it was a typo. Then I was like, well, it's Ace Ace Ace jack, which is like, I guess you can kind of just get it in and just hope for the best because it's ultimately Aces and that's the best hand, right. It's not like you get dealt jack jack jack, Like if you have jack jack jack, that's way different.
You're never playing that hand for sure, But Ace ace Ace is is different. I don't know, it's I did think it was interesting, not to like get on ODB because I'm not a PLO guy at all, that you would play for stacks on day one of the PPC of a five day tournament when it's a super player friendly schedule with A. I want to call him
out. I mean, you might be a poo guy. He's way too good and all the other games to be stacking off INLI with A you know who was against But like it's not, no, it's not stacking off in PLO because you if you have Ace's king King, you're stacking off in PLO. But if you have a as as Jack like, I don't know, I genuinely don't know should I be stacking off? If you know? I just feel like he's in the one k poo. Shouldn't these edge be better?
And like the deuce to seven the stodite every else? Listen, we don't know the action of the hand, We don't know the dynamics of the table. Maybe it was heads up against Gus Hanson. It was No, it was actually heads up against David Benjamin, which might as well be Gus Hanson as far as I'm concerned. At times, doesn't Benjamin have a multiple payload bracelets? Yeah? But I think he can also be a bit of a spastic out there. I've seen some interesting stuff from David Benjamin over the
years. I mean, also, listen, listen, the tweet wasn't that descriptive? Wait? Huh oh wait brace oh? I thought he meant the hand was oh eight, I was what are we talking about here? I mean maybe ODB was pretty sure, like you just never know. Anyway, The point is that ODB busted on day one. Also busting I saw Felip Bramos because I think he's in the he's in the poker Steak group chat, like everyone drops all their receipts, and I think, what, huh.
So if you list on pokers, like you join a pokerst group chat and then everyone just puts their receipts in one master group chat, is that real life? I didn't believe that it was real life, but yes, it's real life, okay. And then there's one person who goes to all the shit and figures it all out like on top of things, like he's he's always in there, like you know, like like I bust the Millionaire Maker, Like when I registered the Millionaire Maaker, I took a picture of my
seat next to my chips and I put it in. I said, you know this is bullet one because I sold two bos. Then when I bust I, well, I fall. I found my message and I said, you know, a millionaire maker billet busted or number one busted, but it's after red so then you can just refund number two. And then like you know, two minutes later he'll respond and say, you know, donnay, Piers, this is cleared. And then this seems like the not the best way to do this. No, it's it's hilarious to do it this way.
But I know that Bromos he he listed for the fifty eight PBC and then he followed up in that chat and said, got out. The best one is Alan Kessler is in this chat, yes, but every time he posts, it comes with the bad beat story like you would expect from It's just everyone else is just like busted this, busted that, in this, in that cast for this did that? You know, like it's very very to the point Alan is is four different lines of like how he busted what
happened? Like, it's just people like, no engage with him. Some people do, very few people do. People are just like whatever. But to your point, I do think it is funny, yes, that, Like, I mean, I have no idea how many people are in this chat, but it has to be a lot. I mean, yeah, there's there's more than there's more than one hundred people, and there's like one hundred twenty people in this chat, so I mean there's a lot of work
for the one person that's doing it. And the person is on top of their ship and always doing it very well, so well good on them. Shout out to that person. But it's just it's just funny that this is the process. I do think it's interesting. Back to the fifty k PBC, can you find out how many they had on day one last year? Least? This update is literally just a chip count and it says ops over a million with James Ops over a million. So he looks to be crushing.
So there's that. Well, this is a surprise name in this. It's not surprising, I guess because he's been playing mixed lately. But I guess it's surprising Michael Rocco crushing. This is what I mean when I see Michael Rocco playing the fifty k PPC. If Ren Lynn enters the fifty k PPC, we got to raise the bias, like we just we have to. I mean, seventy straight players on day one in twenty twenty three, so right now it says sixty six. I'm gonna go to the good old
trusty Bravo Poker app. We still have nine left of play, Deny, so we could see someone. Yeah, and then how long is registration opened? Three levels of the anticipants, like the WPT five Diamond registration where you get register for like six days, seventy five, says seventy five on here, So that means trending up. Trending up, our buddy, my team DPMC twenty five K Fantasy co captain Matt Clark. What did he say?
He said something ridiculously insane number like one hundred and twenty. Yeah, and I was like, hey, snap under for how much can we back? Like type of thing, like, I mean, how many did it get total? Last year? Was it eighty seven? Look this up? Man? What are you're looking at shoes? Shoes? Yeah? I know you're looking at shoes. We're on the podcast. What are you doing, sup? Looking at shoes? I had four screens up, they're all poker stuff
because I'm dialed in. I'm focused. We need to get your focus right. Just you don't need to worry about me. You're the stat man, not providing the stats. I got all the peppy stats right here, buddy. Ninety nine and play is in twenty twenty three fifteen cash, twenty seven million dollars in the prize pool. Yeah, so they're for sure going to pass. Uh yeah, they'll for sure pass. I'm gonna look through the chip couns see who is in there. So James offs is current chip layer
Aaron katz Love. It is out there. Phil Huey, former champion of the event, is in there. Johannes Becker out there, Renon Bruski, Phil Ivy looks like he's doing well. How many tips they start with this thing? Find that out too, while you're as it should be? Three hundred thousand, there's a bunch of bust outs. Three hundred k how many? How many people busted out last year? Looked that up on day one? Yeah, on day one he looks like he's got half a million.
How about you win this one, Daniel, Okay, tell me how many people busted. I'm reading the recap and it's Jason Mercier is back. He's in there. Doesn't say is that possible? Yes, of course it's possible. They should be here. We go fifty four busted No. No. Fifty four from the seventy three survived seventy three or seventy five seventy three so we lost nineteen players on day one. So this year right now, here's
who they have listed as busted. I mentioned Fillip BrahMos and David od b Baker, Scott sever Fish No, Christopher Tongish, Brian Rast, Definite, Fish, Bendibold. Okay, to meet you, Irvanovitch, Fish, Phil Sternheimer, the legend and a name. I'm gonna butcher Arraj PARVIZI ahead of him. Gotta be good. So yeah, so those are there's Those are the players that have been eliminated. Talk by the way I finished. Okay,
so I have a name. I have a name for you random, but I haven't seen this person, so I could I guess this name? So okay, this is one where I'm gonna say this is my random player of the day, given that they're in this tournament. I think I find this extremely random Gus Hansen. But I will also say that this is the type of name when I see it on the chip Coum page that it makes me want to walk my ass over to Paris because I don't believe her.
I don't believe that this person is in this field. Give me a hand, give me hand. I'm gonna guess this la Cash Games. Yes, I'm the best. I am the best in the world. Come on. As soon as I said L, I was like, he's gonna get it for sure. I'm the best. Is that not random? That is so like, I don't believe that. I don't believe she's in the field. Who looks like her that it could be. I have no idea, Okay,
I mean, who knows. We know the joke that Joseph Chong is like he always gets listed as somebody and then he tweets like, I wonder what Asian player they thought it was me today? Like could it be Maria Hoe? And they're just like, by the way, Sion is of Asian descent with long black ass. So that's what we're not trying to be, No, I know, I'm just I'm coming up with Joseph Chong always makes that joke about But I find that extremely interesting that she's in the field.
I mean, that's random af for me. Just going through the rest of the names. Rob Hollank is out there, Dan Kates, he's in there. Phil Huey is in the Chip Guns twice. He's in his phil Philip Blessnick is out there. Of course, David Benjamin, we already talked to him how he busted Ode b. He's in the field. Mike Lang, Bryce Jackey, Gina Reem, Roy Thong, josh Aria, Victor Blom, Gus Hansen, Alexander Wilkinson. I don't know. Is that is that?
What's his name? Say that? Yeah, Alexander Wilkinson. Oh that's Lamar oh Will, but his I never knew his name was. Oh. Is that his son? That's his son? He has a son that plays poker. I saw Will, I saw Lama whatever whatever we call him. I saw him walking in registering. I mean Lamar Wilkinson always plays this event. But there's Alexander Wilkinson is in the counts that I'm reading? Is there a picture? Men? Wsp dot com? Who else we got? Dylan Wiseman.
Remember I said he was going to be in there. He's in there, Yeah, Alexander is. I don't know if John David Rodgers is. He's played a bunch of years. Okay, Hennigan's in there, Livingston Raisner, Marco Johnson alias LAMI there you go, saw him. Albert Daher out of the cash game streets to fire this one. You always get those guys that like they play cash all the time, but then they come and play this one, like this is one where I might not be surprised if you
see Patrick Antonio. I think he's a late red guy. Oppenheim I don't think so. Seth Gottlieb is in there. I saw him sitting, Yeah, what he is knowing? Like I said, these guys are here, they just played the two fifty k and they're just gonna what do you wanted to play the three K no limit hollering tomorrow. No, They're gonna play something that they could potentially win a lot of money. So like this is
why. But this is also why, going back to my point I made several episodes ago, is that this is when you need like a fifty K high roller because one day roll. Yes, yes you got Seth Gottlieb to play this tournament. But you know who is here today who was doing nothing? Jason Kohon, Isaac Hackston. They weren't doing nothing. No, but I'm saying I'm saying that they were here, they could have sweat Ben Toleeren and then went and late regis the fifty K high roller. Hexton might play
the fifty k anyway. Yeah, but I'm saying that probably if they would for sure play a fifty K high single day, you know what, like limit eagle or double day whatever, it doesn't matter. Ellie or Scion haven't seen him in a while. I feel like he's always good on this event. But who Matt Ash Yeah, he's in there. I don't know who Robert Wells is. He finished eighth in something recently recovered. Okay, yeah, the ten k by an event. Eric Wasserson is out there. Ben
U Hondra's corn is in the field. Benny Glasser, That to me is random. Who I'm just going. I mean, he told us he was going to possibly play this event. That's part of the reason why we drafted him. Dylan Lindy is in there as j ham Huh No Jen Hammon. Yet I do not see Jen Harmon in the counts. I see kry Aldemir, I see Chino Sean Deep. I do not see Sean Deep intimidated by
Dylan Weisman. I mean he he ran deep in the whatever the heck that makes triple Mix triple draw made the final table there, so he jumped in the Millie Maker. That would actually be very shande best. Yeah, drop a stack there, try and spin it up. Can always late reds to the fifty k. That makes a lot of sense to me. That's probably what he did. So, yeah, fifty k PPC. The most important thing about the fifty k PPC. Is that Tomorrow, Monday, June fourth,
is when you're probably listening to this episode. We're gonna be streaming. We're streaming this event starting with day two, planning to do several hours of coverage each day, all four levels with ninety minute levels. Yeah, a hundred minute levels, one hundred minute levels. Didn't like Matt Savage say that, Like, we can't do like fifty minute levels and we're out here doing one hundred minute levels. Who cares? It doesn't matter, Okay, hundred
minute levels. I like it. I'm assuming break after every level, fifty minute break after every level. There is a dinner break after the third level of the day. We're going to trim those breaks, trying to be as continuous as possible, basically the lost full levels of each day. Switching some tables app in the mixed game studs up on the feature tables. Listen, it's not just it's not just mixed games studs in this tournament. I mean,
I think I'm choosing tables based on mixed games. No, I know, but I'm just saying it's it's more than just mixed game, Like, there are big bets in here. I mean we talked about the hand that ODB busted on was plo. Right, they play Nola Matt Holme as well. You know they play Nola Mitt deuce to seven single draw, so you know the big bets are in the field. Yeah, I mean, this is this is a great tournament. It's one of the most prestigious tournaments of
the year, hands down, and it's it's incredible stuff. So I'm happy that we're going to be streaming it starting with day two. We're going to be doing day two, Day three, Day four, and then the final table, which is day five. Poker Go is going to have coverage of that. I know that Ali Najade is planned for commentary for day two. I don't know who is joining him, but we'll see. You know who they should get, Tim is raising his hand, No, not you.
They should get Brian Rest because that's actually a great suggestion he busted. So, I mean, or Phil Sternheimer. One of these. I'm gonna send that right now. Set send both of them, Brian Rast or Phil Sternheimer. Brian Rast, of course has done commentary before. He's a three time winner of the event, absolute crusher, so he would be good to get in there, yes, and then Phil Sternheimer. You know, we had
him in the commentary booth alongside Remco and I thought he was great. I know he's interested as long as other stuff isn't going on, so I would really yeah. I mean Phil Sternheimer can missed that. That's like, that's one small blind in the game he normally plays, so whatever. But yeah, I think that those two, either of those two would be great. I'm sure paired alongside the Goat commentator of the Goat play by play guy Alan,
they would be amazing. But I'm very much looking forward to this tournament. I really hope Daniel and Granny wins it for our twenty five K fantasy purposes. So that's up against Steven Chidwick, right, that's that's not in there by the way, Steven Chidwick. But but for the for like the big like like the ten K mixed events that he's been playing, he's been like max late redging them, so I'm assuming he'll come in late in this
one. So yeah, maybe he's in the Millionaire Maker two. You never know, buddy, you never know, all right, I think that's all we got, right, right, Well, what do we Let's talk about what's on deck tomorrow? Yep, yep, yep. I was just gonna say, you got me distracted with your shoes. The possible Donny Pete's invitation with a three K lemon Holm that's on tomorrow. That's gonna kick us off the longest three K and Noliman holdm in the history three K seven day event.
It is a four day event. It does have registration in today too. I'm probably gonna be there for hand one tomorrow at noon. I'm just gonna you should play the lost hand of day one so that you can bag chips and say I bag I made a Day two also on one thousand dollars Super Seniors Championship and the h the evening event, the twenty five hundred Omaha Hi Low seven CDs do High Low Split. That's the one I heard Nick
Wright talking about. He was going to play no chance because then Jeff Platt said to him, and I couldn't tell if they were being serious or not because I was kind of like half listening. But Jeff, if you're listening, text me if this was a serious thing that you were talking about with Nick Wright. But nick was talking about how he came up playing limit games, so he was going to play that instead of the three K because Jeff said, well, what about the three K no limit? Nick said,
no, well I'm the limit. I mean, I have no idea, but anyway, Yeah, this three K is is interesting. Four day event starts at noon. You get sixty or sorry, you get forty thousand chips to start, one hundred, one hundred, one hundred blinds, sixty minute levels, play ten levels. What time you think we'll get done? It restarts on Tuesday at twelve and you can register until approximately two fifteen pm. One re entry. This is a long ass tournament. I mean, this
thing is legit. Last year Yang Zang won seven hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. I mean a four day three K. I mean it sounds awesome. I mean, don't get me wrong, please don't pump me level three me. Yes, you mean, I'm gonna try not to good, but if listen, if the opportunity presents itself and I have to take the spot, I'm gonna take the spot. Like it's just how it is. You know,
you gotta try and win tournaments. You can't just sit back and you know, fold your ass into the money or do whatever these other people do out there. I'm still steaming by the way over that King Douse. It's an unbelievable bad meat that I took in that stupid millionaire maker. But yeah, anyway, that's gonna do it for us. We got nothing else softball right, Nope, sweet you said you might play tomorrow the Horse Deep Stack maybe? Yeah? Have you played any of them this year? Played that
event? I know you were over at the Mixed Game Festival. Yeah, how was that? Shout out Robie Strizynski. No, it's fun us alagia this time. Yeah. I played a lot of people that I'm friends with, fellow media peeps. Lots some money, won some money, got some massages, won some money. What was the net result at the end? Probably down like thirty dollars I could check. I'm just not gonna look at my app right now. Go just sit in the loser's lounge. That's what
you deserve. Pal, all right, that's gonna do it for us. My name is Donnie Peters. His name is Tim Duckworth, and we will talk to you guys on the next episode. So expressed